Employees Motivation in the Nigerian Polytechnic Education Sector

A Critical Analysis of Employees’ Motivation in the Nigerian Polytechnic Education System
Abstract
For a long time, the idea has always been that employees only work to keep body and soul together – just to live; these days, employees work for more than just sustenance and that is what this paper tends to show. For every average human person, the motive to work goes beyond just the sustenance motive, it is a motive to live and show life for it, motive to be accepted as what one’s desire, motive to show the feelings of acceptance and I-can –do-it –if-given-the-chance attitude; motives of adding value to life, motive of giving and receiving recognition, and motives of getting feedback for every actions taken. This paper tends to argue that motivation goes beyond just the various definitions we are all exposed to, it is a mystery that even all psychologists are finding difficult to unravelled, it goes beyond theories and postulations, not for any other reasons, but for the fact that it involves man and the subject of discuss – motivation, it is an innate thing that is subject to the manipulation of the person being observed. It is also poised to answer the questions of why the choice of a particular means of motivation over another; as well as, to test whether a relationship exist between the motivation enjoyed in one organisation and the performance of related organisation where such motivation was denied. In achieving these lofty aims, the researcher sampled 250 senior staff/respondents from six Polytechnic institutions in Osun state Nigeria consisting of the three major types of Polytechnic in Nigeria( Federal, State, and Private Polytechnics) to elicit and measure their opinions on the subject under review using both qualitative (semi structure interview method) and quantitative methods (questionnaire) using Chi square data analysis technique for the latter and explorative data analysis for the former). The paper also marshalled through the various

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